Datang New Order

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In mid-October of the second year of Tianyou, after three months of fighting in Gaoping, the coalition of princes led by Liang Jun finally made a major breakthrough. At the cost of heavy casualties, Zhu Youning finally occupied Jiepai Ridge.With the fall of Jiepailing, the Yan army gradually withdrew from Xuanhu, Shizuitou on both sides, and Niushan in the rear and other important defensive positions.

Subsequently, the allied forces of the princes approached the city of Gaoping, stormed for three days and occupied Gaoping in one fell swoop.

King Liang was overjoyed and urged his army to enter Gaoping, and King Liang moved into the city after his temporary visit.Hundreds of thousands of troops gathered around Gaoping, with people flying, horses neighing, and banners like forests.

Seeing that the victory was obvious, under the strict order of King Liang, the armies of the princes finally officially joined the battle. The Jing army of Ma Yin, the Shu army of Wang Zongji, and the Chu army of Zhao Kuangming filled the battlefield one after another and began to attack Changping. aisle.

Arrowing down in one day, conquering the temple village in two days, occupying Changping Village in three days, and entering Tumen Ridge in four days, the momentum of the army was like a rainbow, and it reached the front of Shihoubao in one fell swoop.

In Shihoubao, the allied forces of the princes encountered the desperate resistance of the Yan army. The Jing army, Shu army, and Chu army all made no progress, and the Qi, Qi, and Wu armies were passive and sabotaged. .

At the same time, a large army went out of Wuxiang to the north, came out of Shihuiguan, and started the campaign to attack Hedong.

Pingyao, which belonged to Taiyuan County in ancient times and is now the land of Fenzhou, is [-] miles away from Jinyang, the northern capital.

On October [-]th, Commander Zhong Shao's Western Expeditionary Army unexpectedly appeared under the city of Pingyao, and immediately stormed the city wall.The Western Expeditionary Army consisted of Cangzhou Army, Weizhou Army, Zhaozhou Army, Huaiyue Allied Army, and Liaodong Security Army as the main force, supplemented by ten logistics battalions and twenty supplementary battalions. Give the designation Jinzhou Army, followed by troops, with a total strength of more than [-] troops, and a cavalry army of more than [-] cavalry!

The city wall of Pingyao was built with rammed earth and fell into disrepair.It was very easy to climb, and the Yan army took advantage of the unpreparedness. Just in the breath, dozens of infantrymen of the Huaiyue coalition army held their blades in their mouths, and they climbed up the uneven wall without even using wooden ladders. Go to the top of the city, kill and disperse the defenders in a blink of an eye, and put down the sling.

The Yan army swarmed in and completely occupied the ancient city in less than half an hour.

Zhong Shao didn't stop.Continue to command the army to attack the city of Zhou, which is [-] miles away, and arrive at noon the next day, and surround the city of Zhou on all sides.Fenzhou has already received the news of Pingyao's fall, and is now on guard. Compared with Pingyao, Fenzhou's state city is much stronger, and it will be difficult to start for a while.

On the one hand, Zhong Shao ordered to rush to manufacture the equipment for ascending the city, and on the other hand, he sent Li Cunxu to go to the city to persuade him to surrender.In the evening, Li Cunxu's persuasion to surrender saw results.The city gate of Fenzhou was opened wide. Li Cunzhang, the former Datong defense envoy and now the governor of Fenzhou, tied his arms behind his back, and led the officials of Fenzhou to surrender at the foot of the city.

Zhong Shao appeased Li Cunzhang with kind words, and randomly sent troops into the city.

the next day.Zhong Shao asked Li Cunzhang and more than [-] men from his subordinates to accompany the army, and went south along Qinshui to point directly at Jiexiu.The Jiexiu garrison was Li Cunzhang's trilogy. After Li Cunzhang came forward, he immediately surrendered in Kaesong.

October fourteenth.The defenders of Lingshi surrendered; on the [-]th, Huoyi surrendered; on the [-]th, Zhaocheng surrendered; on the [-]th, Hongdong surrendered.nine days.The Yan army went down seven cities in a row, and the army arrived at Jinzhou City smoothly, and surrounded Jinzhou.

The governor of Jinzhou was Li Sien who commanded the Daibei soldiers. He was from Tuyuhun. Although he was ruled by Li Sizhao, he was included in the state of Zheng during the division of Jin among the three kings, but he had a close relationship with Li Siyuan, who was also of the Hu nationality. .The Yan army marched south along the Fenshui River, and the troops were advancing rapidly. The news of the capture of the Seven Cities on the [-]th had just reached Jinzhou.

When Li Cunxu and Li Cunzhang came forward to surrender, Li Sien kept asking about the whereabouts of the three kings. When he heard that Li Sizhao surrendered, Zhou Dewei and Li Siyuan died in battle, he was silent for a moment, and immediately refused to surrender to the Yan army.

When Li Cunxu asked what happened, Li Si'en said frankly: "A certain person and Miao Jilie were young friends. When they rebelled on behalf of the North, Miao Jilie pardoned the people of a certain clan, so that the blood of a certain clan continued. How dare a certain person go away with such a great kindness? Beg to die, and let your heart be widened!"

Zhong Shao sighed and ordered to attack the city.

Li Si'en only had [-] Ya troops in Jinzhou city, and most of the Dai Bei soldiers hadn't had time to gather them, so how could they stop the Yan army's attack.The army of Yan ascended the city at the same time from the four walls, and there were hundreds of them at the point of ascension alone. In less than a moment, they gained a foothold on the city wall.A steady stream of Yan troops climbed the city wall, and finally trapped Li Si'en and more than a dozen personal guards on the north gate tower.

Zhong Shao felt his loyalty and asked Li Cunxu to persuade him to surrender again, but Li Sien refused. Li Sien finally turned his knife around and killed himself, and all the guards who followed him committed suicide without exception.

After Li Si'en's death, the state city fell into the hands of the Yan army, and the Daibei soldiers stationed in various places in Jinzhou were determined.Zhong Shao commanded the army to cross Xiangling and enter Jiangzhou.

Most of the main forces of the original Hedong Army were concentrated in the hands of Li Siyuan, Li Sizhao and Zhou Dewei, and only a few capable soldiers were scattered around the river. Among them, Li Cunzhang surrendered and Li Sien died in battle. The remaining Li Siben was in Jinyang and Li Cunjin was in Yanmen , Zhong Shao doesn't need to think about them for the time being.

Therefore, in fact, there was nothing to resist in the whole of Hedong. Zhong Shao led the Yan army all the way south and occupied the entire territory of Jiangzhou.

On October 25, [-] Yan troops and nearly [-] soldiers from the east of the river went straight to Puzhou, occupied Fenglingdu, and opened up the passage from east to capital.Zhong Shao ordered Zhao Ba to lead the Zhaozhou army to start from Fenglingdu, march eastward along the north bank of the Yellow River, detour around the southern foot of Wangwu Mountain, and go straight to Hanoi, the seat of Huaizhou in the northeast of Dugi Province!

The Zhaozhou army was composed of pure cavalry, and the army was at its peak when it moved. It traveled eastward along the southern foot of Wangwu Mountain and passed through Heqing, [-] miles north of the eastern capital Luoyang.

The emperor Li Ye was training troops in Heqing. Since the spring and summer when he was entrusted to the princes, he finally lived a stable life. Apart from the stability, what made him most happy was that the king of Liang actually left the capital to him. Regardless, it's all up to him.Of course, the capital province given to him by King Liang was not a complete capital province. Shanzhou, Huaizhou, Ruzhou, and Zhengzhou were all divided, and only Henan Province could be controlled by the emperor.

But even so, the emperor was quite satisfied.There are more than 3 Dingkou in Henan Province, and together with the people in Luoyang City, there are more than 5000 people in total.The emperor was ambitious and wanted to reorganize the Beiya Forbidden Army. He forcibly recruited [-] people to form the Left and Right Shence Army, the Left and Right Longwu Army, and the Left and Right Habayashi Army.

In order to raise money and food for the army, he mobilized the government offices of various counties in Henan Province to plunder wantonly, leaving ten rooms empty, but even so, it was not enough.So the emperor simply ordered the court officials to donate losses, but the court officials naturally refused, and they wrote to the emperor one after another, saying that the emperor's militarism had caused "the people in the world to live in poverty."The emperor was furious, and simply ransacked the houses of more than a dozen ministers.The court officials finally couldn't stand Longyan's fury, some sold their property, some changed hands to forcefully confiscated from below, in order to pay enough for the "quota" of the emperor, they tried every means.There were also some court officials who couldn't make up enough numbers, so they fled Luoyang overnight with their families.

The Son of Heaven also knew that it was impossible for him to do this, but he kept comforting himself, saying that "in order to bring about peace in the world, the people and the Qing will join us in the national calamity." For the pardon of money and food in the world, the period of pardon ranged from three to five years, and finally reached ten years.

It wasn't until the beginning of September that the emperor managed to scrape together enough money and food for the [-] Beiya imperial guards, so there was no need to carry the armor. That thing was too "extravagant" and couldn't be solved by the emperor now, but at least one gun per person or A knife is done, no matter whether it is good or bad, it is always good to have it.As for bows and crossbows, hundreds of them were used.

So the emperor went to Heqing with [-] forbidden troops for training - he had suffered enough from the rebellion of the army leader, so he simply took the official position of "watching the Tenth Army" (the emperor's plan is to recruit all the Tenth Army in the future).He didn't have any generals under his command, and the emperor felt that he was "skilled in military art and war strategy", so he personally directed the drill.

After practicing for more than a month, the emperor was quite satisfied, and felt that the military affairs were nothing more than this, so he began to wonder whether he should attack a certain prince? ——If you don't do anything, the army food will be worrying!

Just when the emperor was thinking about sending troops, the Zhaozhou army arrived.

Zhao Ba originally thought that this was the rear camp of the allied forces of the princes, so he directly commanded the Zhaozhou Army to line up outside the camp and prepare to step into the camp.What is the formation of tens of thousands of cavalry?Unfolding on the flat ground, it is simply overwhelming.Before Zhao Ba gave the order, the [-] forbidden troops in the camp started to flee, and the whole army collapsed in a blink of an eye, and everyone hurriedly rushed towards Luoyang.

The Son of Heaven got the news in the midst of the chaos, that there was an iron cavalry storming the camp, he was a bit courageous, and rushed to the front of the formation with more than a hundred loyal guards in anger, and loudly asked Zhao Ba what he wanted for.

Zhao Ba was a little embarrassed when he saw that he had made a mistake, but what kind of arrogant person is he?He didn't even get off the horse, but said lightly that he was going to conquer the Liang thieves, and asked the emperor to move and return the capital. This camp, the Yan army wants to requisition.

The emperor's face turned red and white, and he wanted to get angry, but when he looked back at the empty tent, he could only hold back his breath, and finally he was forcibly escorted by the guards and left Heqing.After returning to Luoyang, the emperor held back for a long time and still couldn't hold back. He cursed two sentences, one was "the forbidden army is useless", and the other was "the emperor's uncle is a real thief".After scolding, the emperor vomited blood and was bedridden.

After Zhao Ba occupied the Heqing camp, he sent messengers to indicate the route to Zhong Shao in the rear, and then urged the army to go straight to Hanoi.Since King Liang went to Zelu, the coalition forces of the princes have gone north and entered Zezhou, and the last remaining army also entered Taihangxing last month under the command of Kang Huaiying.At the moment, there are not many garrisons in Hanoi.

The Zhaozhou army's attack was very sudden. Before Hanoi had time to close the city gate, a battalion of the Zhaozhou army rushed in.The Liang army stationed in Hanoi was scattered everywhere, completely unprepared, and was killed in a blink of an eye. The Yan army who rushed into the city even seized [-] shi of grain that was about to be transferred to Zezhou—the Liang army had no time to burn it.

Zhao Ba's surprise attack was a great success, and none of the enemy troops escaped in the entire Hanoi city, and all of them were blocked in the city.After taking Hanoi, Zhao Ba immediately asked Zhong Shao for orders, asking when to attack Taihangxing. (to be continued..)